Posts Tagged ‘research’
Unlikely Heroes
A 21st century publishing revolution? John Peters looks at the post-publication environment and its unlikely heroes. If we reflect on the publishing landmarks of the early 21st century so far, we may first thinkof JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson. The multimillion- selling epics of good and evil, love and loss, vampires…
Read MoreReconnecting with the Business World
“Socially Responsible Scholarship”, Anne S Tsui suggests how business school scholars can overcome the growing criticism of irrelevant and self-serving research. For the past 25 years, business school research has been criticised for its serious disconnection from the world of business practice and for being an insulated and self-serving activity on the part of both…
Read MoreEmbedding Values
Mark Moody-Stuart examines the difficulties of ensuring that the right values are agreed, understood and truly embedded in a large multicultural business organisation. I once attended a large dinner and discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on standards for not-for-profit organisations. The debate was mainly between the leaders of such organisations asking…
Read MoreEnhancing Talent Development and Talent Acquisition
Amber Wigmore Alvarez and Boris Nowalski, both at IE Business School, describe current changes to the way companies and business schools manage talent. Corporate Human Resources Officers (CHROs) should think differently about how they attract and develop talent. As we meet with CHROs worldwide, in almost every industry and sector, it is intriguing to see…
Read MoreHow Being Embedded in your Region Helps Growth
Thomas Bieger explains how the University of St.Gallen used the new Business School Impact Survey to consolidate and build on its local roots. Imagine you are the chief executive of an airport whose customers are rather dispersed. Some of them live up to 100 miles away, which is true of a minimum of 40% of…
Read MoreGoing from EPAS to EQUIS and AACSB … and from AACSB to EPAS
Anne-Joëlle Philippart explains how the mix of EFMD and AACSB accreditation models helped achieve a rapid improvement of the quality assurance system at HEC-Liège. HEC-Liège, the management school of the University of Liege, Belgium, is the result of the 2005 merger of two Liege business schools.The city of Liege has undergone profound industrial change focused…
Read MoreSolving the Global Talent Equation
Mike Johnson offers some thoughts on the challenges facing business leaders tasked with managing our organisations today and tomorrow. Peter Lorange is angry. This well-seasoned academic, innovator and business leader thinks that it is high time a lot of his contemporaries woke up to the fact that the organisation has changed irretrievably – and do…
Read MoreReinvigorating the PhD
PhDs are increasingly under scrutiny for being ‘irrelevant’ and ‘lacking impact’. But given the right tools, Simon Linacre at Emerald Group Publishing believes that they still have much to offer. It may surprise some to know that the PhD, as it is today, only goes back to the 19th Century. As a result of education…
Read MoreFrom Great to Gone – Lessons for Business Schools
Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski argue that business schools must react more urgently to a new type of student. Evidence from business suggests that we are faced with an entirely new class of consumers – the IT-fluent multitaskers – and that these may require a different set of innovations behind the products and services they…
Read MoreStrategic Leadership and New Ways of Working to Drive Growth – the UniCredit Approach
Andrew Rutsch explains how Italian banking group UniCredit turned to strategic leadership and new ways of working in a bid to drive organisational growth. In today’s fast-paced environment, organisations and even whole industries are challenged with seismic shifts. Companies such as Kodak, Merrill Lynch and General Motors, once industry icons, are now bankrupt, acquired or…
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